Voltaire wants to experience love. Unfortunately for him, he's a machine.
Voltaire spends each night installing a new dream, hoping the next one will make him more human. No matter how many he's utilized, they always fail him... until he meets the dream merchant.

In an age of augmented reality, love is found in the most dangerous places. Stranded on Mars, megacorp programmer Derek Tobbit drowns his sorrows in augmented reality sex, only to have his drug-fueled midlife crisis hijacked by a conspiracy that threatens the solar system. It will take all his hacker skill, the friendship of a rogue AI, and the redemptive power of an impossible love to save them.

That Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, the first one for the eternal children of Isaac, should have been a time of celebration and quiet contemplation. Instead, the three deposed Lords of Hell attacked Psykhe's Last Homely House, determined to take over our tiny, helpless bodies and destroy our minds. Here is one resident’s account of the brutal attack, and timely intervention of the Great Issac.

A Science Fiction Story Bundle from the collection There's a Sword for That.
THE VISITOR - Felockati is anchored to his permanent location underwater and misses the days of roaming his ocean world freely.
YOUR EVERY WISH - Stealing the alien ambassador's dagger is a sure thing for Pete -- just what he needs to pay off his debts.

A Science Fiction Story Bundle from the collection There's a Sword for That.
MONSTERS - Xenoarchaeologist Vartan has promised his young daughter Liza one of the many enigmatic lamedh objects that litter the site of a vanished alien civilization.
ADAPTABILITY - The Webster Marble Deluxe Woodsman, Model 820-E, has been offlne for quite some time. Quite some time indeed.

After his wife, Pam, had died, Tom’s virtual household assistant, Valerye, had adapted from just helping around the house to becoming more of a friend. She was also able to increase the interactions with him through Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Though this interaction was really helping him cope, some of Valerye’s actions caused Tom to question her intent.

Will a forbidden love tear the world apart… or can it be used to heal the deep divide? In the middle of the twenty-second century, with the world finally recovering, the love of a young immortal Over and a rebel Under threatens to change the fate of Humanity. And as our civilization’s future hangs in the balance, an all-knowing AI launches her own plans for the future of mankind.

Paragon.EXE is the prequel novella to the Absolute Knowledge trilogy. Fueled by the Cold War, the development of the technology that led to the Absolute Knowledge project began with very different objectives than are present in the year 2146, over two hundred years in the future from the start of the Omniscient project.